NEW CRISIS IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 201, 14 May 1918, Page 5

NEW CRISIS IN RUSSIA

GERMANY'S IMPOSSIBLE DEMANDS

MENACE TO MOSCOW AND

PETROGRAD

Moscow, liny 12. Again Russia, scorns dangerously mar a final catastrophe, 'j'here is a. cry here that the Germans will shortly occupy i'ctrograd and Moscow. It is based on .the Iwlicf that the Bolshevik dictators will not yield to a series of Merman ultimatums, or that submission ras been purposely niado impossible. The people now recogniso that it is only the Gorman will which counts. Some will welcome tlio invasion in the hopo Hint it v/ill terminate the present clmos. The (!?rman Ambassador's demands include the immediate return of all German ;:>risom-TS and the restoration of order, for which the Soviet forces are considerec 1 insufficient, and the eurrendor of Fortino, which is connected with tlio Kronstndt system of fortifications. The Oominissaries are in coii.-.tant session, ;\:id are sending protests to Berlin, which ieDiains luica'iipromisinjf. It is stated that two German divisions from Pskov will occupy Petrograd unless the soviet submits.—"The Times."

POLITICAL AND (OTAL PRISONERS SET FRER .INCLUDING SUKHOMLINOFF. Moscow, May 12. Ifany political and criminal prisoners have beo:i ■> eleased, including the ex-Minis-ter of War GciMrnl Sukliomlinolf, and (ithor Ministers of tlio Romanoff and Kerensky regimes, except those charged with high treason and embezzlement.— Keutcr. ' BADA DISPERSAL DENOUNCci) INCIDENT IN THK REICHSTAG. Washington. May 12. Official advices received by iLo State Department ?ay that Dr. Philip Sfhiedemaun, the Socialist, speaking in the Reichstag, denounced tlie dispersing of the Ukrainian Rada by the German nilitary. He jioiiiteil out that although there, was peace between tlio two countries the documents of fivo Ministers were seized in the liada.—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A VISIT T9_M EX-TSAR GR.AND DUKE NICHOLAS DECLINES TO BE INTERVIEWED. Berno, Jlay 12. The "Frankfurter Zeitung s" .'riinea correspondent visited Sinblc Castle, whore the Romanoffs are kept prisoners under the survoillauce of twenty-five soldiers of the Soßastopol Soviet, who r.re sworn lo prevent their escape. Tlio Grand Duke Nicholas refused to receive the correspondent, explaining that he hud nothing to say.—Aus.-N.Z. Coblo Assn.